To celebrate 20 years since its inception, the world drug report 2017 is presented in a new fivebooklet format designed to improve reader friendliness while. The world drug report 2019 also registers a decline in opiate trafficking from afghanistan along the northern route through central asia to the russian federation. Global trends in estimated number of drug users and people with drug user disorders, 20062015 global trends in the estimated prevalence of drug use and prevalence of people with drug use problems, 20062015. Booklet 1 summarizes the content of the four subsequent substantive booklets and presents policy implications drawn from their findings. The world drug report 2019 is again presented in five separate parts that divide the wealth of information and analysis contained in the report into individual readerfriendly booklets in which drugs are grouped by their psychopharmacological effect for the first time in the report s history. Reports published by the international narcotics control board in 2017. To celebrate 20 years since its inception, the world drug report 2017 is presented in a new fivebooklet format designed to improve reader friendliness while maintaining the wealth of information contained within.
Each year, the complexity of the world drug situation increases. The thematic focus of the 2017 report are on the links between drugs, terrorism, corruption, transnational organized crime and illicit financial. The findings of this years world drug report show that drug markets are expanding, with cocaine and opium production hitting absolute record highs, presenting multiple challenges on multiple. This year marks 20 years of the world drug report, which comes at a. Crime, the who regional office for europe, interpol, the world customs organisation. This year, the world drug report is presented in a. The 2017 edition of the world drug report is now available from the unodc web site. World drug report 2018 united nations publication, sales no. Over the past two decades, the united nations office on drugs and crime. It is our great pleasure to introduce the european drug report 2017. In 2008, some 10 per cent of the morphine and heroin intercepted globally was seized in countries along the northern route. The world drug report 2017 was prepared by the research and trend analysis branch, division for policy analysis and public affairs, united nations office on drugs and crime, under the supervision of jeanluc lemahieu, director of the division, and angela me, chief of the research and trend analysis branch. Prevention and treatment continue to fall far short of needs in many parts of the world. Globally, some 35 million people, up from an earlier estimate of 30.